#redwall tag

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

honestly it is really encouraging to me though that this time around i can talk about quarry bullshit without getting Upset. it was genuinely triggering and distressing as fuck running into it facefirst last year, and then having to go through it with a microscope to process the psychic damage it did me. doing so did, however, lay the groundwork for unpacking LL's shit this year, and unpacking LL's shit has laid even more groundwork for me to go back to TQ and confidently describe what i'm talking about.

as much as the AAAAAAAAAAAAA has sucked to wade through in both cases, i've said it before and i'll say it again, it's genuinely therapeutic and it will hopefully make it even easier to unpack the next time i run into something like this.

[vigscribbler]

I’ve been preparing for a Redwall-inspired ttrpg one shot and have done nothing but think about cozy little woodland critters and their silly little adventures.

[daybyday-artwork]

Togie and his new friends take a rest

[volleypearlfan]

Canadian Cartoons Are Great

Today, the popular cartoon YouTuber Saberspark uploaded a video talking about the infamous “fart episode” of the 2023 Total Drama series. The comments were filled with hatred and generalizations towards Canadian animation. These terrible comments are not the fault of Saberspark, but it is true that the “big users” in the cartoon community are (mostly) Americans who spread myths and stereotypes about Canadian cartoons. This has bothered me and a few others for quite a while, so here, I’m going to prove why Canadian animation is great, actually, and dispel common misconceptions

All Canadian cartoons are about fart jokes - if you say stuff like this, you clearly have never seen a Canadian cartoon outside of Total Drama and Johnny Test. That’s like if I said “all anime is naughty tentacles” or “all American cartoons are about anvils falling on your head.” And don’t act like your precious USA cartoons and anime are exempt from toilet humor. One example of an anime with toilet humor is Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt - their first episode was about a monster made out of shit. And we all know about the gross out cartoons such as Ren and Stimpy.

Canadian cartoons are cheaply mass-produced because of CanCon - No. What CanCon ACTUALLY states is that a certain percentage of content on a Canadian channel has to be Canadian-made. The policy is about supporting Canadian art, not “mass-producing” cartoons, since this applies to ALL Canadian TV and radio content, animated or otherwise.

Now, let me tell you some reasons why Canadian animation is actually great

Some of your childhood shows, such as Arthur, Franklin, and Little Bear are Canadian in origin.

Some of the most acclaimed cartoons within the cartoon community, such as Ed Edd n Eddy and MLP:FIM, were both animated in Canada and had voice actors from there (same talent pool, in fact - Vancouver)

Inspector Gadget and the Beetlejuice animated series helped keep good animation afloat during the 80s. In a decade full of uninspired and insipid cartoons, these were two of the highlights.

Canada is still a great place to outsource animation, as proven with the works of Nelvana, Mercury Filmworks, Jam Filled, and countless others.

If you grew up without cable, you probably watched PBS Kids and/or Qubo a lot. Guess what - lots of the shows on both of those channels were Canadian. For example: the PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch: Timothy Goes to School, Seven Little Monsters, Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse - these shows are all Canadian! Qubo was also home to Jane and the Dragon, Jacob Two Two, Babar, Spliced, etc - they’re all Canadian too.

Because Canada’s censors are far more lax compared to American ones, Canada has made huge strides in teen and adult animation. Such shows include Total Drama, 6teen, Detentionaire, Undergrads, Producing Parker, etc as well as the movie Heavy Metal.

Also because of the lax censors, Canadian cartoons had positive LGBTQ representation far before the United States did. One episode of 6teen has a character stating “I’m gay,” and in Braceface, the main character assists her gay friend in finding a boyfriend. Unsurprisingly, these episodes never aired in the US.

6teen also dealt with periods before Turning Red, Baymax, and Molly McGee did it (again, the episode was banned in the US).

Finally, here are a few Canadian cartoons I recommend, and where to watch them:

Cybersix (it was a Canadian and Japanese co-production). The whole thing is on TMS’ YouTube channel.

Redwall is on Pluto, and there are episodes of it on YouTube courtesy of Treehouse Direct

Toad Patrol (unfortunately you’re gonna have to resort to low quality YouTube uploads)

Silverwing - again, the complete series is on YouTube

Detentionaire- On Tubi and Pluto!

Ruby Gloom is a great show if you like cute gothic stuff; it too is on Tubi and Pluto

The Adventures of Sam and Max: Freelance Police - on Tubi

One of my favorites, The Raccoons. Basically the Canadian equivalent to The Simpsons, and with a banger ending song. The show’s production company has uploaded episodes of it for free on YouTube.

The original Clone High was animated by the legendary Nelvana (if you’re wondering, the new season is not outsourced to Canada 😔) It is on Paramount Plus and HBO Max

Undergrads - yet again on YouTube, in low quality unfortunately. Like Clone High, it was on MTV.

I also recommend watching some short films from the National Film Board of Canada. My personal favorite is the Log Driver’s Waltz.

Tl;dr - American cartoons are not bad because of Allen Gregory, anime is not bad because of Pupa, and Canadian cartoons are not bad because of Johnny Test or fart jokes.

[spookymoonybeasty]

What small(ish) animal would Tucker be?

I got hit with a surprise interest in Redwall, and now I'm trying to decide what animals various Danny Phantom characters would be.

So far I've got Danny and Sam. Danny being a badger (of course) and Sam being a bat (of course).

Tucker however... I can't decide. I kind of want him to be a vermin of some sort (rat, ferret, weasel, fox, etc.) to subvert the usual formula of "good" and "bad" species. But any vermin species doesn't seem to fit him, or makes him seem plain next to a badger and a bat.

Could also just make Tucker into an animal not found in the UK as Redwall animals typically are.

[blujaydoodles]

in all ways except physical I am a six inch tall fuzzy little creature living in a mossy stump (which I've filled with a bunch of random shiny bullshit)

[ravennory]

GETS AN IMAGINED FORM IN THE HEAD. GETS KILLED IN 3 CHAPTERS. BRAGGIO IRONHOOK.

[slagarthecool]

Me reading High Rulain for the first time: Wow! There sure are a lot of parallels to Mossflower! I wonder if, like Gingivere, Jeefa will be the moral better compared to his brother Pitru. Can't wait to see how his character develops!

High Rulain at the end of Chapter Eight:

[captainsvscaptains]

Battle of the Captains

Round 3 Part 1 Poll 1

Propaganda

Rubbery captain of the Straw Hat Pirates. Incredibly loyal and skilled. His main goal is to be King of the Pirates. He has not had a single other thought than this, save for "I'm hungry"

Finnbar lost his wife and son in a pirate attack, steals his ship back with the help of another dilf and they go on adventures.

[qrowsofafeather]

Tagged by @fickleminder

Rules: make a poll with five of your all-time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same, see which character is everyone’s favorite.

tagging: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @wolvesinstarryskies, @oheyfox, @obae-me, @devildomditzy, and anyone who's interested

Edit: I probably should have thrown in Sung Jinwoo or Woo Jinchul but those two are super recent oh well

[silverwhittlingknife]

which character who has canonically died would you most like to codemn to live?

Hi <333 OOOH okay so full disclosure when I was reading that post I was mostly thinking about stories I already like - so, like, there's the near-death stories, which I'm forever obsessed with - Dick trying to do noble self-sacrifice post-Blockbuster, and Tim trying the same thing in Red Robin, and both of them ending up inconveniently alive afterward.

And also, a bit more directly, the Lotus Pier story starts with the protagonist DRAMATICALLY DYING IN NOBLE SELF-SACRIFICE --- aaaaand then getting brought back to life over a decade later. And VERY INCONVENIENTLY it turns out all of the people that our hero was obsessively avoiding having honest emotional conversations with?? They are all still around!! And all those relationships are all still unresolved!! Anyway naturally our hero does his level best to pretend he has NOT come back to life, but fortunately/unfortunately they figure him out after a while.

(He still manages to duck out of some emotional resolutions, because he is the most instinctively evasive man In The World, but that is what fanfic is for.)

THAT SAID IF I LIMIT IT TO CANON COMICS DEATHS FOR CHARACTERS WHO DO NOT COME BACK TO LIFE --

Mostly villains I think?? Like, this isn't really relevant to the earlier post, because that was about self-sacrifice, but right now I'm just thinking about the vibes of "I would like to condemn you to live." And that's usually villains!!

If there's a villain who isn't intended to be especially sympathetic but then is kinda sympathetic in ways that are never fully explored, I am always, like, what if they lived though. Not necessarily in the canon stories, but in fanfic sdfdsfs

So for comics: Tara Markov.

[foundfamilyhq]

[redwalltournaments]

This Is A Lot Of Blood For A Children's Book Contestants

It took me longer than I wanted to get this put together, sorry, but here is the current contestant list as it stands:

Cluny: Crushed by the Joseph Bell

Cheesethief: Killed by a giant crossbow

Members of Cluny's Horde: Boiled alive

Skullface: Crushed under a cart

Scratch: Killed by an angry swan

Cludd: Impaled by a large amount of otter javelins

Malkariss: Stoned to death

Gabool: Poisoned by his own pet scorpion

Klitch: Poisoned himself

Skalrag: Arrow Pincushion

Rose: Skull cracked against a stone wall

Felldoh: Killed by over a score of Badrang's horde

Dirgecallers: Buried Alive

Urgan Nagru: Impaled by wolf fangs

Conva: Hypnotized into committing suicide

Piknim: Attacked by Jackdaws

Ublaz: Poisoned by his own pet snake

Mokkan: Chain to the throat/Drowning

Vilu Daskar/Luke: Shipwreck, Drowning

Crew of the Sanya: Shipwreck, Rammed by the Gorleech

Stonepaw: Drowned

Ungatt Trunn: Broke spine, Drowned

Bladd: Burned, Crushed by a cauldron

King Agarnu: Drowned by Riftgards former slaves

Members of Araltum's Groves: Cannibalized

Gulo: Decapitation by shield

Jeefra: Fratricide

Riggu: Metal barb to the head

Gruntan Kurdly: Killed by an angry swan

Vizka: Snapped spine, drowning

Tarul: Crushed between the Matthias and Methuselah Bells

Bloos Apis: Stung to death by bees

Polls will probably get set up properly sometime friday or saturday so feel free to suggest anything else until then

[suzyandthefox]

Update on my reading of Redwall for those who care:

1: This is for children?!? (Again)

2: Heavy religious themes, not surprising at all

3: For real though, I love how it's idealistic and simple with it's ideas,but it's also mature and does not act like it's readers are dumb babies, it does NOT shy away from death and violence, and tackles heavy topics with grace.

4: Very Medieval-Shakespearean vibes, old fantasies of knights and heroes and stuff

5: Book one was a light read, can't wait to start book (2)

6: Would love to see a Gijinka of these characters

7: I don't think humans are going to make an appearance at any point but I'm curious on where they are

[coolforestrat]

Okay, since I've got other projects that I'll probs never post here, I have an idea for a specific fanfic.

Picture this: a Redwall and Squeak Squad crossover. Catching what I'm throwing? I would think that SS would kinda just get sent to the Redwallverse, and I kinda wanna know what happens. But again, I've got other things, so I can't exactly expand on it.

If any of yalls wanna take this idea, have at it. When yalls are done with it tho, pls show meeeeeeee